The
NLRC was organized in 1996 with the idea of creating
a national club that would preserve and promote the
Labrador Retriever. Everyone in the Labrador community
is welcome... from pet owners to old timers.

We are a National
Labrador Club formed by the members, for the members,
working together for the preservation and promotion of the Labrador Retriever.

FCI
Standard for Labrador Retrievers

The Federation Cynologique Internationale (FCI)
is the World Canine Organization. Eighty countries throughout
the world are part of this organization (the United
States of America is not among them). The FCI recognizes
330 breeds. Each of them is the "property" of a specific
country. The "owner" countries of the breeds write the
standard of these breeds (description of the ideal type
of the breed) which all member countries use as their
breed standard and the reference on which their judges
base themselves when judging shows held in FCI member
countries.

LABRADOR RETRIEVER

GENERAL APPEARANCE: Strongly built, short coupled, very
active; broad in skull; broad and deep through chest
and ribs; broad and strong over loins and hindquarters.